Teenage vigilantes kill a drug pusher only to have him return as a zombie.Teenage vigilantes kill a drug pusher only to have him return as a zombie.Teenage vigilantes kill a drug pusher only to have him return as a zombie.
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Michael Rubin
- Dan Wake
- (as Michael Ruben)
Craig Sabin
- Chuckie
- (as Robert C. Sabin)
Allen Lewis Rickman
- Lieberman
- (as Allen Rickman)
Kevin Nesgoda
- The Byrd
- (as Kevin Nagle)
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- Writers
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- TriviaThe soundtrack features many rising bands of the time, Del Feuegos, The Violent Femmes, Los Lobos, The Smithereens and others.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Fleshtones: I Was A Teenage Zombie (1987)
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This should be a cult classic
I am saying that in a schlock sense, though. I have to say I like this movie a lot. It's a horror-comedy with an in-joke reference to Lloyd Kaufman, and is a good, goofy, nasty movie. It has more intentional laughs than unintentional, I think. Take the jerk cop for example, wearing a badge that looks like it was made by a little kid with paper and scissors for Halloween. They had to know what they were doing there! The low-budget gore FX are pretty cool, and one scene in particular (where the guy's face is ripped off) actually shocked me when I first saw it. The various artists soundtrack is great (and harder than hell to find). As far as the "plot" goes, we have some misfitly losers (my kinda people!) who go out to buy some pot for a spring dance celebration. What they end up with is some toxin-sprayed weed that makes them feel under the weather. (One drug cartel henchman says, "I wouldn't give that sh*t to my mother-in-law.") Nobody becomes a zombie from this, though. Still, what we do end up with is a very cranky (no pun intended) zombie drug pusher killing off hapless victims left and right. The only person who can stop him is another zombie (which I thought was a cool idea). Everything here is so matter-of-fact, like somebody took a slacker movie like "River's Edge" and mixed it with "The Toxic Avenger". I love this, a classic cheezball splatter-comedy that's just fun.
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- Oct 24, 2003
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By what name was I Was a Teenage Zombie (1987) officially released in Canada in English?
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